- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (8 Jun 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330481320
- ISBN-13: 978-0330481328
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,028,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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After a bomb attack Sergeant Ray Flowers moves to his late aunt's cottage to contemplate the future. Old diaries refer to a visitor called Kitty - but Ray learns that she was tried as a witch in 1643, and like him, bore facial scars. He pieces together her life, and finds his own part in it.
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The Angel Gateway was conceived of long before I wrote my first novel, The Greenway, and I originally expected it to be simply an historical novel. The central character of Kitty Hallam was one I visualised strongly right from the outset. I knew, Kitty's history and some of what would happen to her but had no idea of how to put this into a book. It needed something else and early in my writing career I certainly would not have had the confidence to weave two storylines together as eventually happened in The Angel Gateway. So, it was put on hold and several years passed before I even re-read the original research notes that I had made. Then, the second storline began to emerge as Ray Flowers began to creep into my consciousness - actually, he's too big to creep and emerged with something of a large thump - and I knew I had my other character. Kitty had someone in the present day over whome she could have influence. Linking them took a little longer, a simple haunting didn't seem to be enough and then it occurred to me, what would happen if Ray began to haunt Kitty in her own time just as she affected him in his? The Angel Gateway itself is a location in Leicester, a little alleyway runnng between Gallowtree Gate and the market place and I always wondered how it got its name... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The Angel Gateway was conceived of long before I wrote my first novel, The Greenway, and I originally expected it to be simply an historical novel. The central character of Kitty Hallam was one I visualised strongly right from the outset. I knew, Kitty's history and some of what would happen to her but had no idea of how to put this into a book. It needed something else and early in my writing career I certainly would not have had the confidence to weave two storylines together as eventually happened in The Angel Gateway. So, it was put on hold and several years passed before I even re-read the original research notes that I had made. Then, the second storline began to emerge as Ray Flowers began to creep into my consciousness - actually, he's too big to creep and emerged with something of a large thump - and I knew I had my other character. Kitty had someone in the present day over whome she could have influence. Linking them took a little longer, a simple haunting didn't seem to be enough and then it occurred to me, what would happen if Ray began to haunt Kitty in her own time just as she affected him in his? The Angel Gateway itself is a location in Leicester, a little alleyway runnng between Gallowtree Gate and the market place and I always wondered how it got its name... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Wow, Jane, your best yet. Better than the Greenway. I gave up waiting and got it from the library.
This book is a lovely mix of the supernatural with straightforward crime detection. Ray Flowers is a believeable and attractive main character. As in the Greenway Jane manages to weave the spooky in with the real world making it all too believable. I read this late one night, and had to finish it to find out if the ghost was benevolent.
If you like crime and enjoy a bit of chill up the spine then this is the book for you.
Love and kisses Kerry.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Jane Adams masters the art of transporting us not only in time bul also into the characters mind.
In this story, the feeling one gets sometimes of how it would be life hundreds years ago is put into words.
Not only do you get a perfect insight of the characters feelings but also you keep with the story from beginning till end, always hunger for more.
And you start thinking that this story can be true, that it is just possible that it really took place; you wonder if it isn't possible that it happens everyday.
Smashing - it will keep in the back of your mind for ever.
In this story, the feeling one gets sometimes of how it would be life hundreds years ago is put into words.
Not only do you get a perfect insight of the characters feelings but also you keep with the story from beginning till end, always hunger for more.
And you start thinking that this story can be true, that it is just possible that it really took place; you wonder if it isn't possible that it happens everyday.
Smashing - it will keep in the back of your mind for ever.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
D.I. Ray Flowers, after being severely burned on face and hands by a petrol bomb thrown at him, goes away to escape media and other attention. He hopes to recuperate, regain the use of his hands, adjust to his disfigured face and the shock and embarrassment aroused in all who see him. He moves to an old country cottage he has inherited from his late aunt, feeling guilty because he has not spent more time with her. He expects to find peace where no one knows him but he is soon very much involved with his aunt's friends and affairs. The vicar stayed with her when he first came to the village and from her diaries he finds she had another visitor. He is almost sure he doesn't believe in ghosts - he is a down-to-earth policeman - but Kitty, who lived and died in Cromwell's time, becomes as real to him as Sarah, who helps him search for Kitty's background, her fate and the reasons she continues to haunt his cottage after three hundred years. The story of why Ray was attacked runs side by side with Kitty's story - more than side by side, intermingled, for she is as aware of him as he is of her. She too has facial scars from burns; she too is strong in her beliefs and delights in helping others; and she too has friends who love her and support her when she needs help. The crime story would have made a novel in itself, as would the ghost story, but linking the two, having these strong characters dart in and out of each other's lives despite the centuries that part them, makes an intriguing, absorbing read.
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